Star Trek: Enterprise - Season Four

EPISODE 79: “Home”

The first warp-five starship, Enterprise (NX-01), was launched in 2151 under the command of Jonathan Archer. This was long before the time of the standard “five-year missions,” but it stayed out for three years before returning to Earth for the first time. (Ultimately, the voyage lasted ten years.)

The third season of Enterprise ended in a cliffhanger (the Enterprise and its crew are transported in time to an alternate 1944 in which aliens have helped the Nazis win World War II), and the two-part “Storm Front” which leads off season four resolves that conflict.

After that, the Enterprise returns to Earth in 2154. Trip accompanies T’Pol to Vulcan. We see more of life on Vulcan in this episode than we have in any other TV show or movie to date. T’Pol’s home looks very much like Spock’s in the animated episode “Yesteryear.”

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  • My wife and I stopped watching Enterprise sometime in the first season, when too many continuity errors crept in -- especially the too-emotional/vaguely villainous Vulcans. Didi it get better?

  • I gave up on Enterprise fairly quickly, as well.  I do have a couple of episodes of it on disk from some of those themed collections: "Alternate Universes", "The Borg", "Captains' Choice", and so on.

  • “Did it get better?”

    Ah, Cap… I’m glad you’re here. My secret objective in hosting this discussion is to convince you and Joan to give Star Trek: Enterprise another chance… just season four. (It’s available on Netflix.) In answer to your question, it got a lot better. And just wait until I get to Episode 91!

    EPISODE 80: “Borderland”

    We’ve seen Brent Spiner play the aged Noonien Soong (Data’s creator) in Star Trek: The Next Generation; in this episode, we get to see him play Arik Soong, Noonien’s ancestor. Arik Soong is a geneticist following in Kahn’s footsteps. When a group of genetically altered supermen take over a Klingon warship, Captain Archer enlists Dr. Arik Soong to track them down. This is the first of a three part story.

    TRIVIA: The character of Arik Soong was originally intended to be Col. Greene until Brent Spiner expressed an interest and the part was rewritten.

    “I do have a couple of episodes of it on disk from some of those themed collections…”

    When I get to “In a Mirror, Darkly” (Episodes 94-95) I hope you’ll watch along (assuming it’s included in the “Alternate Universes” collection).

  • What bothered me about Enterprise was that the number of years (how many?) that it was supposed to precede the original series didn't seem to have resulted in enough scientific advances. They had virtually all of the goodies that Kirk had. 

  • It takes place about 100 years before trhe original series, give or take.

    In the 88 years between First Contact (2063) and the launch of the Enterprise NX-01 (2151) the Vulcans were kinda/sorta holding their terran allies back. Perhaps that persists for several more decades...? Kirk's Enterprise is a little bit, a little bit faster and (to my eye) a little more modern looking, but I agree: the technology level seemes roughly the same. They maybe should have set it, say, a quarter century or so before Pike.

  • TRIVIA: The character of Arik Soong was originally intended to be Col. Greene until Brent Spiner expressed an interest and the part was rewritten.

    The story you tell is BTS trivia, but Col. Green's actions are not. It's that sort of fast-and-loose play with Trek history that turned me off. Enterprise re-wrote Earth's relationship with the Vulcans, changed the circumstances and timing of when Earth met the Klingons and Romulans and left no room for the Eugenics Wars. That's just what I remember off the top of my head. This is "history" I've known since the 1960s, and I resent it being treated as flexible and conditional. The writers seemed to have no respect for the original series at all.

  • This sort of thing is why I decided that the various series took place in similar but distinct universes.

    Captain Comics said:

    TRIVIA: The character of Arik Soong was originally intended to be Col. Greene until Brent Spiner expressed an interest and the part was rewritten.

    The story you tell is BTS trivia, but Col. Green's actions are not. It's that sort of fast-and-loose play with Trek history that turned me off. Enterprise re-wrote Earth's relationship with the Vulcans, changed the circumstances and timing of when Earth met the Klingons and Romulans and left no room for the Eugenics Wars. That's just what I remember off the top of my head. This is "history" I've known since the 1960s, and I resent it being treated as flexible and conditional. The writers seemed to have no respect for the original series at all.

  • “Enterprise re-wrote Earth's relationship with the Vulcans…”

    That’s true. Or… it revealed hitherto unknown aspects of the Earth/Vulcan relationship, depending on one’s point of view. There will be some more of that to come.

    “…changed the circumstances and timing of when Earth met the Klingons and Romulans…”

    Did it? Not that I recall. I remember from “Balance of Terror” that there was an Earth/Romulan war “about 100 years ago” (the era of Enterprise), but that the races never saw each other face-to-face. When they encountered the Romulans on Enterprise, they never met face-to-face.

    Regarding the Klingons, I don’t recall any specific details from TOS to contradict. As I recall, the K;ingons were introduced in “Errand” of Mercy” as a known entity, but I don’t remember any history between the two races earlier than that.

    “…and left no room for the Eugenics Wars.”

    Reality itself leaves no room for the Eugenics Wars. That was in the 1990s…? I remember a two-part episode of Voyager that was set in the early 21st century and mentioned the Eugenics Wars, but I don’t remember anything from Enterprise that “left no room for them.” The next two episodes are going to deal with what happened after, though, so I hope you’ll keep reading.

    “The writers seemed to have no respect for the original series at all.”

    Have you seen all of season one of Star Trek: Discovery? It was that which made me long for the days when the writers did have respect of the original series, which is what led me to watch season four of Enterprise now. Then again, I watched the extras on the Discovery DVD, and the writers involved obviously hold the original in high esteem. I just can’t see it in the episodes themselves.

  • I haven't seen Discovery yet, and wont until, as you said, it's on a format to which I have access.

  • It seems to me that series that originate on (all) pay services later become available on DVD but likely will never be streaming on any other service. Does anyone know of any exceptions?

    Captain Comics said:

    I haven't seen Discovery yet, and wont until, as you said, it's on a format to which I have access.

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